Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released

Posted Apr 26, 2024 1:58 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released by gus3
Parent article: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released

I once tossed a dead 14" 2.5MB disk platter (not the central hub, just the platter) in an empty warehouse. It was almost scary how well it sailed into a wall. Top Job had nothing on it!

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released

Posted Apr 26, 2024 2:49 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link] (1 responses)

Wasn't he "Odd Job?"

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released

Posted Apr 26, 2024 4:31 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

Yep, I sit corrected.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released

Posted Apr 26, 2024 16:41 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

How old was that then! I remember using the 19" 16MB/side platters - the old 300MB drives with 10 platters. And we had a 32MB drive with one fixed and one removable platter.

When I left that job and started another they had 2 of those 300MB drives - and I remember them telling me the story of getting the second drive. When the supplier (Norsk Data) installed the computer with just the one drive originally, they didn't bother aligning it. So when the second drive arrived and they tried to do backups, nothing worked because the disk could only be read on the drive that wrote it!

Cheers,
Wol

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released

Posted Apr 26, 2024 16:59 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

This was a Datapoint 5500 with 2.5 MB fixed and 2.5 MB removable platters, sometime after 1980 when we moved into that building.